are southern nurses better educated than northern educated nurse?

I've worked in major teaching hospitals in the north (Pittsburgh) and small rural community hospitals in appalachia areas of Kentucky. I now reside in Florida. In all honesty I learned more in that little rural appalacachian hospital then I did anywhere else I have worked. I was treated as an equal by not only the other nurses but the MD's as well. We did our own art lines, suturing, intubations, etc that in major hospitals a nurse wouldnt be permitted to do. We didnt have MD's on premises at night and the only MD in the hospital 24/7 was the one ER MD. We learned very quickly how to fend for ourselves. We didnt have high tech equipment therefore had to do many things the "old fashioned" way. I cherish that experience because as I stated before I became a much more knowledgable and experienced nurse in that little southern "Hick" town then anywhere I have ever been.

Has anyone worked in a northern and southern state? Someone made a comment to me about that during an interview but I don't know if she was being insulting or what. I know people who were patients tell me that the technology in the south is not great and care was inferior.